Why script ip-down.local is doing nothing?(Solved)
Parameshwara Bhat
pbhat66 at rediffmail.com
Fri Jul 29 05:07:41 UTC 2005
Dear List,
The issue listed below is solved by a helpful suggestion by Mr.James
Wilkinson, off the list. The reason was setting the executable bit for the
script! I thank James for his perceptive suggestion.
I also thank Alexander who gave the script,Paul and others who helped.
Parameshwara Bhat
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:39:41 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat
<pbhat66 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have created a script in ip-down.local as follows on the advice of
> Mr.Alexander Dalloz on the list,
>
> [pbhat at sidharth ~]$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down.local
> DATE=$(date +"%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S")
> # Format: date time onlinetime [s] bytes send bytes received
> /bin/echo $DATE $CONNECT_TIME $BYTES_SENT $BYTES_RCVD
> >>/var/log/ppp-usage
>
> I have also created an empty file in /var/log/ppp-usage.
>
> Now I expected this file to be updated each time connection went down.
> This doesn't seem to be happening. This file remains empty.
>
> If I issue command
>
> /sbin/echo $CONNECT_TIME
>
> I get nothing. What I am missing here?
>
> Regards,
>
> Parameshwara Bhat
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